Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kapľa

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

From *kapati + *-ja.

Noun

*kapľa f

1. drop

Inflection

Declension of *kapľa (soft a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*kapľa	*kapľi	*kapľę̇
genitive	*kapľę̇	*kapľu	*kapľь
dative	*kapľi	*kapľama	*kapľamъ
accusative	*kapľǫ	*kapľi	*kapľę̇
instrumental	*kapľejǫ, *kapľǫ**	*kapľama	*kapľami
locative	*kapľi	*kapľu	*kapľasъ, *kapľaxъ*
vocative	*kapľe	*kapľi	*kapľę̇

^* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
^** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: ка́пля (káplja)
  • Ukrainian: ка́пля (káplja)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: каплꙗ (kaplja)

  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ка̏пља m

    Latin script: kȁplja m

  • Slovene: káplja (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: kápě
  • Polish: kарlа, kарiа

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ка́пля”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress